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I ... the ... any about going to graduate school to revive a stalled career peers ... a careful ... I'm Tom Bemis MarketWatch first that good ... the number of people applying for graduate school is going down applications have fallen for the past two years after rising from ... the previous decade that's great if you're still because you get more time with factors ... and there will be fewer people competing for jobs in your field ... once you graduate ... but even though the number of applications that you probably cost you more money to go ... that's because of big government cutbacks in funding the coast for assisting ships ... and the end of subsidized loans for graduate school ... oh and colleges and universities are complaining that they have fewer resources so more classes ... being taught by and professors ... either way good grades aren't enough to get to win ... he'll probably wanna lose some weight before you apply ... a study last year found that overweight graduate school applicants get fewer admission offers compared with their thinner counterparts ... and no surprise that name on the school will make a big difference to your salary ... graduates of an Ivy League school like the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and a median payable and twenty five thousand dollars the year two years after graduate ... persists to sixty two thousandthree hundred ... for the same degree ... from University of Massachusetts ...